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The cave-dwelling Bollywood loving Bedouins of Diksam Plateau

Diksam Plateau was the reason why I visited the remote island of Socotra. It was home to the endemic blood […]

April 14, 2020

“You will be staying at the Taj of Socotra”, beamed my affable guide to me. We were out of the […]

April 13, 2020

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020

The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of […]

April 10, 2020

It is officially spring in Cairo. The weather is moody swiftly changing from sunshine to clouds to horrible sandstorms. Cold […]

March 9, 2020

In 2013 or 2014, I spent some weeks in Sri Lanka. It was during monsoon and tourism was at its […]

February 14, 2020

Horton Plains, with the highlight of the World’s End, is one of the best side trips from the tea hill […]

February 13, 2020

The dramatic precipice of the World’s End is located halfway of a 9 kilometers hiking route through the Horton Plains […]

February 12, 2020

Drip-drip, the rain fell insistently outside my window. It was not a hard, drumming rain that bears down like dead […]

February 11, 2020